Tonight on GeekNights, it's one hell of a cop-out as we talk about indoor lighting. It's just too dark in our apartments. In the news, beware the day of no news, don't drop things in space, and it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
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This time we talk more about lighting I guess? Itâs Thursday. We were hungry.
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Itâs always sunny is scary accurate in regard to Philly things. The Preston and Steve show make CONSTANT cameos and often bring other local flare to it.
A good litmus test is this parody of their style, if this seems like a good idea then check the show out.
When I worked for Loweâs in Virginia I worked in the electrical department. I am not in any way exaggerating when I say I spent half to two-thirds of my time helping old people with light bulbs. No matter what I did almost none of them could wrap their heads around anything except an old school incandescent bulb. I tried to explain light color with a demonstration thingy. Nope, LED and CFL is too bright the color is wrong. I tried explaining that an LED is more expensive because it lasts forever. Nope, its a plot by Obama because something something EPA muh jobs. I had more than a few people go off about Obama âoutlawingâ ânormalâ bulbs and a couple were even convinced the EPA would eventually have them arrested for using them.
I had a chandelier in my old apartment. The only reason it was there at all is that my girlfriendâs parents used to own an antique shop specialising in light fixtures.
It was SUPER bright. So bright we unscrewed six of the twelve light bulbs, just to make it pleasant to have hanging in the room, despite the ceiling being 4.2m high and the whole room being massive. After a while we only ever turned it on during dinner parties. Finally we took it down, as it just wasnât practical, and stuck with smaller lighting around the studio.
Learning that there are places in first world countries where ceiling lighting isnât standard was a bit of an eye opener.
Largo is a wanna-be politician for the libertarian party now. ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Sad, but I guess thatâs what you would expect from Internet guy.
If you want to be annoying about it, white LEDs use a phosphor coating to generate light, making them technically fluorescent lights. Also heat is a much bigger problem with LEDs than is obvious, they become less efficient and burn out faster if they get too hot. Heatsinking gets real important when you get above 3 watts or so. I have a 50w module that I bolted to an old CPU cooler and it still needs a fan.
I do have a bunch of home automation lighting and stuff. Iâve found itâs basically impossible to find products off the shelf that do what I want so I rolled my own with openHAB and some ESP8266 microcontrollers. I have programmed in failure modes for network and sensor issues, and MAC filtering blocks the nodes from doing things they shouldnât. Itâs kinda nice but I canât really recommend it unless you can think of something better than âturn on/off a light with my phoneâ for it to do.
With baited breath did I wait for someone to come to the realization Scott was talking about Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Although admittedly I thought there was some lesser known writer for Always Sunny that also worked on Seinfeld.
Oh, yeah. I knew this and assumed everyone else did too. Though admittedly I was thinking it was Larry David, and whatever show Larry David writes and stars in that I couldnât remember the name of.